Re: Suggested CL enhancement - <>

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The main reason not to use these is that these code points are not 
guaranteed to be the same for different code pages (CCSIDs). There is a 
thing called the invariant character set, which comprises a-zA-Z0-9 and the 
characters + < = > % &  * " ' ( ) , _ - . / : ; ?

Note that the exclamation point is also variant. Logical OR (|) and logical 
NOT (¬) are not in the invariant character set.

This is what makes stuff not work in other locales.

Look up "invariant character set" in InfoCenter for more info.

Vern

At 02:22 PM 9/23/2004, you wrote:
> I've worked in many shops that have standards to not use
> special characters for any clp/rpg coding or field values in
> any file.
> jim
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> From: "Martin Rowe" <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>
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>
> > On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 17:08, Dan Bale wrote:
> > > I forget the details, but I've been burned using those ¬ symbols, I
> think
> > > when sharing code with someone in another country.  This was over 15
> years
> > > ago.
> >
> > Yes, I've had similar problems with ¬ (on my UK keyboard it's left of
> > the 1 key, just above the tab key) with Scandinavian users not able to
> > compile my utilities. Characters like #, $ & £ caused problems too, as
> > did ||, |< etc.
> >
> > Regards, Martin
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